The U.S. Chamber of Congress has ranked the states it deems the best performing in terms of growth. It judged those states based on their 10 and two year job growth rates, gross state product rates per job and per state, as well as income per capita growth. The organization is a lobbying group for big businesses.

States with significant exposure to farmland and natural resources performed well, while many of the country's traditional economic titans, like California and New York, don't show up on this list.